Category: Openstack

To migrate VMs to different compute node is easy, simply hold your ctrl key and select VMs, drag & drop them to a new compute server. But now it support more feature, when you release the mouse, it will popup a windows to select “migrate now” or “thru titan script”. If you select titan script,… Read more

Openstack 4th party, i got a counter to demo Titan, thanks Cyberport. Titan language will be demo after September. People seems more interested in Titan management tool rather than the Titan portal. read count : 436

I nearly don’t understand the code I wrote 6 months ago about the vnc connection. It is a little complex, the basic idea is : Titan server create a proxy server to the kvm’s vnc. Titan server is using java object stream to communicate with client, it wrap all the bytes from the object stream… Read more

Developing the titan portal, which is for hosting company’s customers. If you want to build a hosting company using openstack, you definitely need a portal for your customer to provide operations. read count : 315

When you restart the cinder node, make sure all your VG drives are up before starting tgt and cinder-volumne service. You can type “pvdisplay” command to see if there anything. Otherwise the cinder will still up and show you the storage volume, but you can’t start any vm by “nova boot”. read count : 336

Ribbon bar is better. Original design put the major buttons on the LHS, but it grabs space than the tree (describe the openstack architecture). Also the original design put all the function buttons on the bottom, it is better to put it on the ribbon bar that on the top. In ribbon bar, major button… Read more

openstack VM hang up after changed screen solution, i tried to change the screen resolution from 1280×1024 to 800×600, the screen just size down, but the VM is hang. It is completely hang because i can’t even ping/ssh to that VM. Do you know the reason? read count : 366

if you having a slow-login problem when you are trying to connect ssh from the openstack vm to the outside world. This will solve the issue: Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf , change “hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4” to “hosts: files dns”, no need to restart anything, ssh login prompt will come out quickly. read count :… Read more

Still working on the VM process window, I want titan user able to see clearly inside VM. In this window, the chart will show the cpu/memory usage of that VM. I will enhance it to: 1. When select a process on the bottom, the chart will show the cpu usage only to that process. This… Read more

Here is my home openstack lab, if you follow the openstack official guide to try openstack, your environment will be pretty similar than mine. I met a trouble: my openstack vm can’t access internet. Here is how to solve it: My environment is: 1) I got a broadband line, connected to the gateway server, the gateway… Read more

When you failed to start nova-network or nova-compute by command “service nova-compute start”, the log will has nothing. But you can solve this by “service nova-compute start && ps aux|grep nova-compute”, this command will list out the command line to start nova-compute, just paste that into your terminal, now your nova-compute is running directly rather… Read more

This is the Titan architectural diagram. Titan solution consists of 4 projects, they are: 1. Titan Server – It is the core part of the system, it used to controls all openstack services (nova, neutron, etc…). The role of the titan server is to execute the command from Titan management tool. 2. Titan – It… Read more

I am designing the log window (see below) for titan to show the error log for an instance. When the instance is fail to start, i can use “nova show” to get the error message, but the message is only the last record of table instance_faults, so the log message is not complete. Any openstack command… Read more

still working on the property window, when executing the titan language, some status need to displayed to user. Try to make it more informative, so user can see everything to the instance. read count : 414

Finally feel satisfied with this design 🙂 🙁 But the bad news is, i can’t do any openstack thing in the day-time job. Wasting time to cooperate with someone whom stop/resume the project every week. I don’t even able to pickup the call from community, can’t attend any seminar or gathering. They just want to… Read more

I am still focusing on design the VM screen, in the VM screen, need to meet these requirements Display real time status, include CPU usage, memory usage. The GUI need to has some basic AI to auto-grouping the elements. Better to show the user by layers (network layer, database layer, application server layer, OS layer),… Read more